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by: J. D. Salinger
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780553146646
ISBN: 0553146645
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Publication Date: 1980
Publisher: Bantam
Studio: Bantam
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Product Description:
Stories as follows: A Perfect Day For Bananafish, Uncle Wiggly In Connecticut, Just Before The War With The Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down At The Dinghy, For ESME-WIth Love And Squalor, Pretty Mouth And Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period and Teddy, 198 pages
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Rating:  - Stories that leave you wondering..."what?"
I really wanted to like this book. Many of the reviewers for this book have spoken rapturously of it, and I can tell that a great number of them are well-read and articulate people. I was hoping I would like this book because I enjoyed "Franny and Zooey" and looked forward to hearing more about the Glass family, among others, but this was not the case.
With the exception of "A Perfect Day for a Bananafish," I found most of these stories opaque and difficult to make sense of afterwards. ... Read More
Rating:  - Mediocre
J.D. Salinger is the Terence Malick of the writing world, save that his art is not as productive and not as qualitatively good as Malick. Both men are acquired tastes to most, both are notoriously reclusive, with Malick readying only his fourth film in a third of a century this year, while Salinger has managed to only proffer three readily available literary works in his nearly sixty year long career- that being the criminally overrated The Catcher In The Rye- a good- but nowhere near great- novel, the ... Read More
Rating:  - Salinger's Little Worlds
This is a collection of short stories and vignettes which act as snapshots of the lives of the characters within them. Some are rather short and feel a bit incomplete or idle, but I think this was intended by Salinger so as to not bog down the reader with overt themes or ideology and simply to show moments in peoples' lives. I'm thinking particularly of 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut', 'Just Before the War with the Eskimos', 'Down at the Dingy' and 'Pretty Mouth and Green Eyes' when I say that some of the ... Read More
Rating: - Nine Stories More Than Just Bananafish
Nine Stories is a famous collection. "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" has lost none of its power to shock. To experience the vitality and humor of Seymour's conversation with the little girl on the beach - the ending is sad and inexplicable, and of course the Glass family is terribly wounded as a result. This story is a must-read, but so is "For Esmé with Love and Squalor" (a moving story about traumatic stress and the healing power of love,) and "Teddy," a unique and funny story about a 10-year old genius ... Read More
Rating:  - Salinger Hits Nine Home Runs.
Published after The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Nine Stories is quintessential Salinger. Having first read Salinger's collection of Nine Stories as a college student, these short stories have remained in my thoughts for years.
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (first published in the The New Yorker, January 31, 1948) tells the story of war veteran Seymour Glass, who commits suicide while on his honeymoon with his wife, Muriel, in Florida. While Muriel discusses fashion with her mother at the hotel ... Read More
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